Hi Howard

I learn songs the way you do.

I always thought it had two separate processes.

1.The first was to learn the words until word perfect.

2. Then for me came the hard bit. How best to perform the song/music.

I always found find that 1 was/is easy.
2. I never felt that to my own satisfaction I achieved this as much as I would have wanted.

Cheers

MikeL2